Greetings,
Here is another weekly update on the work of the Discovery department. If
you have questions, please ask!
== Highlights ==
* Published Maps Terms of Use [0]
== Discussions ==
=== Search ===
* The time needed to restart our elasticsearch clusters is improving [1]
* Fixed a rare edge case where a wiki could show duplicate results when
detecting query language [2]
* Fixed a rare edge case that could cause fewer results to be displayed
than expected on French projects [3]
=== Portal ===
*
Wikipedia.org portal article stats were updated on 12 Dec 2016 [4]
* Updated Wikipedia portal with translations for browsers that have their
primary language other than English. [5]
=== Interactive ===
* Kartotherian and Tilerator configurations are now deployed with scap3, a
more streamlined process [6]
* Updated static maps to now be faster in showing updated details [7]
* Updated what we're logging for metrics [8]
[0]
https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Maps_Terms_of_Use
[1]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T145065
[2]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T153051
[3]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T151173
[4]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T128546
[5]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T142582
[6]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T150021
[7]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T150358
[8]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T151929
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The full update, and archive of all past updates, can be found on
MediaWiki.org:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Discovery/Status_updates
Interested in getting involved? See tasks marked as "Easy" or "Volunteer
needed" in Phabricator.
[1]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/qW51XhCCd8.7/#R
[2]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/5KEPuEJh9TPS/#R
Yours,
Chris Koerner
Community Liaison - Discovery
Wikimedia Foundation